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Student Procrastination: Why Students Procrastinate and How to Stop It
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| bet | 3/10 | | Sana | 23.12.2023 | | Hajmi | 31,98 Kb. | | #127460 |
Bog'liq Student Procrastination Why students procrastinate
Students procrastinate because issues like exhaustion and anxiety outweigh their self-control and motivation. These issues include personal factors, like fear and perfectionism, and situational factors, like distractions and unclear instructions.
Specifically, when students need to study or work on assignments, they rely primarily on their self-control in order to get themselves to do it. Furthermore, their self-control is sometimes supported by their motivation, which helps them do things in a timely manner.
However, in some cases, students suffer from various issues that interfere with or oppose their self-control and motivation, such as exhaustion and anxiety. When these issues are stronger than their self-control and motivation, they end up procrastinating, until they reach a point where the balance between these factors shifts in the students’ favor, or until it becomes too late.
This explains why many students procrastinate in a chronic manner even when they have the necessary motivation and truly want to study and get their work done. This also explains why many students always procrastinate on academic work until right before the deadline, at which point the increased motivation, often in the form of stressful pressure, finally pushes them to start studying or to start working on their assignments.
Accordingly, common reasons why students procrastinate include the following:
Abstract goals, generally in terms of being vague about when and how the students intend to study or do their work.
Feeling overwhelmed, often while being unsure of how to deal with the academic task at hand.
Perfectionism, generally in the form of refusing to create work that has any flaws.
Fear of failure, often due to concerns over how failure might reflect on the student’s abilities and skills, either in their eyes or in the eyes of others.
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